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Former MLB player Chad Curtis found guilty of sexually assaulting teen girls

Former major league baseball player Chad Curtis, left, and attorney Mark Dodge appear in Barry County Circuit Court in Hastings, Mich. Tuesday, August 13, 2013. Curtis's trial on criminal sexual conduct charges is in the second day of testimony.
(Chris Clark | MLive.com)

HASTINGS, MI -- A Barry County jury spent only a few hours deliberating today before finding Chad Curtis, a former Major League Baseball player, guilty of sexually assaulting three teen girls.

The jury began deliberating about noon today in the case of Curtis, who was charged with six counts of criminal sexual conduct. The counts included charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, third-degree criminal sexual conduct and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Curtis, 44, played for the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees in a decade-long career in the major leagues starting in the 1990s.

The maximum penalty for the charges is 15 years in prison.

Curtis was a weight room training and substitute teacher at Lakewood Schools and performed massages on students for purposes of muscle rehabilitation.